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If i erase the HDD once copied and booted from SSD this wont remove the recovery sections on the HDD will it?

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It depends how you erase. The 650 Recovery partition is hidden, so if you just erase the Macintosh HD partition on the HDD, the Recovery HD partition will still be there. However, if you select the drive brand name (like Seagate 500GB) in Disk Util when you erase the HDD and not just Macintosh HD, that will erase the Recovery HD partition.

Would I still be able to recover to the 1TB in the future if i wanted / needed to?

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Only if you have something to boot from with a Recovery HD partition on it. So if you can still boot from the SSD, you could use that to get things installed back on the HDD if you had to. Don't know what year your iMac it, but the newer ones support Internet recovery from the machine's firmware so you could recover from that.

You can also boot and recover from a USB external Time Machine backup if you have one.

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